The cutest of things-MAJOR UPDATE

As of yesterday, our wee bit is 7 months old. She is mobile (although not officially crawling; it's more of a scoot, half-walk/crawl, kinda looks like a monkey dancing), knows to "pose for the camera", will laugh with a grunt, and she KNOWS how to play "peek-a-boo"!

She will "stand" on her legs, with her hands on the floor, and try to actually WALK. We keep thinking that she may just pass the stereotypical crawling and start sprinting?!? At her 6mth check-up, she weighed just barely over 16 pounds, but was almost 28" long (which is REALLY tall for her age). We're told she's pretty advanced for 6mth age group....we attribute this to working with her, reading to her, exposing her to EVERYTHING.

Strangely enough, our 10 year wedding anniversary is coming up, and we've decided to do something fun that includes Loli....maybe taking a day trip to one of the local vineyards for a picnic and lots of "road trip" pictures. It sounds straight out of a movie to me, and I absolutely LOVE it! Video camera and digi-camera in bag, picnic basket of goodies, our lil family singing at the top of our lungs, driving down the back roads with the windows down....I cannot think of a better way to spend my 10 year anniversary! (outside of driving down to Dauphin Island and camping on the beach! But I don't think Loli is quite ready for a camp trip.)

I MUST get a video up soon of her playing "peek-a-boo"!



~Ciao

Christmas Eve-The Family

So, Wayne and I will be traveling to Tennessee for a bit to see our families. I'm sure there's going to be lots of hugs knowing that there's going to be a new addition in 8 months. This Christmas will be a pivotal point in my life; not only have Wayne and I shared 10+ Christmas' together, but from now on, there will be a little person that we'll be sharing Christmas with as well. The very sound of that is strange to me.....I guess that I always assumed it would always be our friends' children and our nieces and nephews?


Ohhhh, that's all about to change! I am grateful that my nephew, Bishop, is only going to be a short trip older; I hope they are the best of friends (even if it's a girl). A few nights ago, there was a commercial on TV, and it showed a little boy skipping rocks on the water. I rolled over in bed and giggled, "You're going to be able to teach our baby to skip rocks, honey. You are the "master" at skipping rocks." (and Wayne REALLY is awesome at it)!!!! "Well what if it's a girl; she's not going to want to learn how to skip rocks!", he said.


AND, trust me, regardless, boy or girl, if Wayne could teach me to love nature as much as I do, our child is going to be a "lost child", constantly wanting to go to Uncle Dave & Aunt Camille's (they live on the Flint and are VERY dear friends) to play in the river! I loved that Camille called me and stated, "I can just see that lil kayak coming down the river now!" I cried listening to that voicemail.....because it's true, and because THAT will be beautiful!


I hope everyone out there gets what they wished for on Christmas~Happy Holidays & be safe!!!

The Discovery

I'm just going to start with the first day....we'll call it December 12th. That's the day that something REALLY strange happened (I won't go into details, but "abnormal" should be descriptive enough). And as quickly as it showed up, it went away......so I waited.

I'd decided that if by Tuesday, I was "late"....it was test time. That happened yesterday, Thursday the 18th. Two tests and 8 bottles of water later, I sent Wayne a text...."Are you ready to start designing a crib?" Through tears, we texted back a few times, and then I called my dad. I could barely speak as I told him he was going to be a grandfather for a 3rd time in a little over a year's span. (my baby sister had a baby in May, my younger brother in November)

So, sit back, visit often and leave LOTS of comments, as we share our journey with you of Our Biggest Catch!